Week of August 21, 2016

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Sunday, August 28

Sunday, August 28, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Free with admission

Sunday, August 28, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
5:15 PM
King Hu,
Hong Kong,
1967,
(111 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

The Chinese martial arts picture was never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn, which merges swordplay, melodrama, history, and Beijing Opera traditions with thrilling results. Paul Fonoroff introduces 8/26 screening.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
    Chinese cinema expert Paul Fonoroff, who lives in Hong Kong, introduces the August 26 screening
Sunday, August 28, 2016
7:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1954,
(114 mins)
Introduced by Marilyn Fabe (August 4 screening only)Dour photojournalist Jimmy Stewart sits with a broken leg by his window observing his neighbors' lives, in Hitchcock’s brilliant meditation on cinema and voyeurism.  
  • Marilyn Fabe
    Introduction to 8/4 Screening
    Marilyn Fabe is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley and the author of Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

Monday, August 29

Tuesday, August 30

Wednesday, August 31

Wednesday, August 31, 2016
7 PM
Grant Gee,
United Kingdom,
2015,
(97 mins)
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence captures “the magic of ordinary objects”; this film does the same, and showcases Pamuk’s relationship to his beloved Istanbul. With Dana Levy’s short, Dead World Order.
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Thursday, September 1

Thursday, September 1, 2016
1 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Thursday, September 1, 2016
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)
Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara star as father and daughter in a deceptively simple, eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free

Friday, September 2

Friday, September 2, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Friday, September 2, 2016
7 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1967,
(179 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

One of the most influential Westerns of all time, and a striking example of how cinema can create a living myth out of pure visual spectacle. Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef.

Saturday, September 3

Saturday, September 3, 2016
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Saturday, September 3, 2016
5:30 PM
Max Ophuls,
France,
1950,
(97 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Love's ceaseless roundabout, set in the Vienna of the waltz. “Ophuls displays dazzling technical virtuosity and cinematic elegance” (Chicago Reader).
Saturday, September 3, 2016
7:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1953,
(140 mins)
This simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Ozu's style. "Wonderful . . . One of the manifest miracles of cinema” (The New Yorker).
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